Why You Need an Enterprise-Grade Ingress Controller on OpenShift
Why You Need an Enterprise-Grade Ingress Controller on OpenShift Enterprises rely on Red Hat OpenShift’s industry‑acclaimed Kubernetes platform solution for its comprehensive feature set, robust architecture, and enterprise‑grade support. It’s no surprise that these organizations are also seeking enterprise‑grade traffic control capabilities coupled with automation to enhance their Kubernetes platform and achieve a faster cadence in their application development and deployment cycles. Kubernetes mandates the use of Ingress interfaces to handle external traffic coming into a cluster. In practice, external clients accessing Kubernetes applications communicate through a gateway that exposes traffic at Layers 4 through 7 to Kubernetes services within the cluster. To work, the traffic‑routing rules in an Ingress resource need to be implemented by an Ingress controller. Without an Ingress controller, the Ingress can’t do anything useful. In this diagram, the Ingress controller sends all external traffic to a single [ more… ]